…This is juxtaposed with a scene of Ted and Coach Beard walking into the team’s locker room for the first time. “The press room shows Ted up against it,” says [cinematographer David Rom]. “We framed him often trapped through heads or center-framed fish-out-of-water and alone against the terrifying British tabloid media. Handheld was used to reflect Ted’s uneasy state while wider lenses — 18mm and 25mm Tokina [Cinema] Vistas — close to Ted also helped put us inside his mind. In the locker room, however, Ted walks into a space that he knows well, even if the deodorant has a different name. We see him wide in his space [with the aid of 35mm and 50mm Vista lenses], and the camera pushes in low, showing us that this is a place where he is powerful and in control. Steadicam, low-angle shots, and steady framing help show he’s not as clueless as the press scene made him out to be…

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